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It still makes me sick to my stomach – this time the sworn testimony of CIA contract psychologist/torturer James Mitchell that Gina Haspel was - Ray McGovern for Antiwar.com Original
Like many ground-breaking investigations, the exposé would take decades to be accepted as fact
It is eye-opening, and yet also like Gibney’s best work, affirming in the worst ways.
Rapport-building techniques, which by the way, are legal. >> and that's the valid point here. in fact, we have testimony. we have the information that he got from abu zubaydah, and we know that to be more reliable than what was got from enhanced interrogation techniques, and to this day there are people who will defend the idea that interrogation works. what's in it for hem to defend it, other than protecting their own legacy? >> i think that's precisely what's in it for them. they're right to pretend that what they did was great, when the record shows just the opposite. and this was not somet...
Terror, we continue to adopt those universal principles. >> there are two buckets here. one is guantanamo, which is representative of the way whether we do it guantanamo or the way we held prisoners in the middle east, which doesn't seem to live up to any meaningful standard of how you imprison people. and there's the second issue, which is enhanced interrogation techniques or what we now know to be torture and its effectiveness. both of these have undermined these universal principles that you say that we subscribe to. >> that's correct. in the case of the torture program, this is something t...